And here is the full quote, debunking your Meme. Gates quote was part of a speach, on Global Warning and linking lower infant mortality rates, to falling birth rates and by extension, lower global population, leading to lower human impact on climate change. "Themisinterpretationstems froma commentGatesmadeduringa TED talk in 2010 aboutmethodsforreducingthe world’s carbon emissions to zero (here).Crucially, one of the factors pushing carbon emissions to an unsustainable level is population growth.
“First, we’ve got population,” he said during the talkorganized by TED, anon-profitorganization devoted to spreading ideas.“The world today has 6.8 billion people.That’sheaded up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3.”
However, Gateswas not suggesting the global population should be killed off using vaccines.He isinsteadsayingthat improving public health using vaccinationscanreduce unsustainable population growth in the future – and with it, lower carbon emissions.
The Microsoft co-founderhas long been a proponent of population control to target the roots of poverty and unrest(here).
In 2011, hetold Forbes magazine that when he first entered public health it was to focus on contraception (here).
When he later saw data suggesting that when mortality rates fall, so, too, do birth rates, Gates shifted his focus from preventing births to saving people already alive.
“We moved pretty heavily into vaccines once we understoodthat,” he told Forbes." 😷
@whowasthatmaskedman His main motivation, as he let slip in a TV interview, was the 20:1 return on vaccines (the best investment in the health area, as he said). In other words, he's primarily in it for the money.
@WalterF So there is no "sinister" motive. Just pure profit. In that case maybe he should have invested in diseases of the Rich, instead of the one no one else was worried about, because all it did was keep the third world poor. I doubt that I like Gates any more than you do. But he saw a GLOBAL need where his money was not going to disappear into the pockets of the rich and that would help a third of the worlds population, who happen to be the poorest and least able to help themselves. I'm not prepared to declaring him world Emperor for it. But money is not a motivator for him at this point. And he is making a difference for good..😷
